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The Francis Whitaker Blacksmith Shop at the John C. Campbell Folk School. This is a list of blacksmith shops. This is intended to include any notable current ones operating as businesses, as well as historic ones that are operational or not.
The shop was built about 1899, and is a rectangular, frame, 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-story building on a high stone foundation. The house was built about 1860, and is a side-passage plan, frame, 2-story dwelling on a stone foundation, with Stick trim and modest interior finish. [2] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. [1]
It is a noteworthy example of the utilitarian, commercial, false-front architecture which was once common in small-town Minnesota. It also features an unusually well-preserved interior plan and fixtures of an early 20th-century blacksmith shop. [5]
Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop is featured in the historical novel Anthony Adverse by Hervey Allen.As depicted in the novel, the "blacksmith shop" was mainly a cover for maintaining a gang of exceptionally tall and strong black slaves – who were ostensibly engaged in shoeing horses while being used by the Lafitte brothers for intimidation, extortion and other criminal activities in and around New ...
Nolan's plan was to buy a historic house and relocate it to government-owned property for use in education. [2] The Kellogg family donated their house and it was renovated and moved onto the property in 1979, eventually opening to visitors in 1985, although the official founding of the museum, then the Exploratory Learning Center, was in 1981.
A blacksmith shop does occupy the current John Deere Historic Site grounds. Archaeologists used a magnetometer to locate the position of the forge in the original blacksmith shop, thus, the current shop shares an interior which is an exact replica of the original. The exterior of the building has the same dimensions as the original as well.
Edwin Klockars' Blacksmith Shop is a historic 1912 building in the Rincon Hill neighborhood at 443 Folsom Street, San Francisco, California, United States. [2] It remained an active blacksmith shop within multiple generations of the same family, from 1912 until 2017. [3] It has been listed by the city as a San Francisco Designated Landmark ...
Irvine Blacksmith Shop, at 14952 Sand Canyon Ave. in Irvine, California, was built in 1915-16 by the Irvine Company. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. [1] It has a utilitarian style generally and a Western false front, with a wide step-down parapet. It is constructed from wood frame and wood posts, with narrow ...